January 6, 2012

The letter titled â€śFor the Nordic Record,â€ť submitted by Brian Knox and published in the Dec. 23, 2011, edition, contains factual inaccuracies that we would like to address here.

The Town of Mammoth Lakesâ€”not MLTPAâ€”has submitted a Measure R application for a multi-year funding commitment supporting a cooperative effort between the Town and the Inyo National Forest to establish and maintain the Mammoth Lakes Trail System (MLTS).

January 6, 2012

Every day is the finest time of his life, if you ask me, but even I would admit that this day ranks right up there.

He is reading his fortunes.

â€śDog who pee on dog gets a leg up on the competition,â€ť he intoned. Waiting a comedic moment, he then howled in glee.

Fido had received a box of dog fortune cookies in the mail. Who from? He doesnâ€™t know. An admirer. But right there on the Chinese takeout box, was the label, â€śKung Fu Fido,â€ť made somewhere in Minnesota.

January 6, 2012

Neither dust nor sun nor heat of night shall keep the Village Championships from their appointed rounds.

â€śThe VCsâ€ť begin on Tuesday with the Race Department putting up gates for the first round of racing.
The second round will take place Jan. 24, followed by races on Jan. 31, Feb. 7, Feb. 14, Feb. 28, March 20; and April 3.
The VC team and individual finals will be April 10.

Itâ€™s a wide-open competition, as it has been for 36 previous seasons. The racers are local and regional business owners, masterâ€™s racers, junior team coaches, ski instructors, current and past competing racers.

January 6, 2012

Mammoth Mountain sailed through the holidays just fine, according to ski area CEO Rusty Gregory.

In a carefully-worded memorandum to employees, dated Jan. 1, Gregory said this holiday period the ski area â€ścompleted its most successful and New Year holiday period in my 34 years on the mountain.â€ť

Um, well, sort of.

Gregory said in an interview this week that the ski areaâ€™s â€śsuccessâ€ť is in context with other dry holiday periods in the ski areaâ€™s historyâ€”not an all-inclusive, year-by-year breakdown.